Professional Windows Server 1002003 Security A Technical Reference [Electronic resources]

Tries to recover a file from a defective disk.

Syntax

recover [drive:][path]filename

Options

[drive:][path]filename

The file you want to recover

Examples

Recover the file

doc1.txt in the root of the H: drive:

recover H:\doc1.txt
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Press ENTER to begin recovery of the file on drive H:
459264 of 459264 bytes recovered.

Notes

• recover reads the specified file sector by sector and recovers data on good sectors. (Data on bad sectors is lost.)

• You can't use wildcards.

See Also

chkdsk, chkntfs, convert, defrag, diskpart,

Disks , format, label, mountvol